Code.org, the nonprofit computer science education organization behind Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code campaign, has announced a partnership with the College Board to bring computer science courses to school districts nationwide. The partnership is intended to encourage high schools in 35 of the nation’s largest districts, including New York City, Chicago … continue reading
Security researches have exposed a software vulnerability in Dropbox’s SDK for Android. The bug could allow hackers to connect apps from a mobile device to their own Dropbox account without a user knowing. The vulnerability, which was discovered by IBM’s X-Force application research team, impacts Dropbox SDK versions 1.5.4 through 1.6.1. “The response from Dropbox … continue reading
Code.org announced its Hour of Code campaign has eclipsed 100 million hours, measured by the time students have spent taking the free programming courses and tutorials offered online. The total dates back to the program’s beginning back in June 2013. The organization also announced the number of lines of code written has surpassed 5 billion … continue reading
Happy Almost 2015, GitHubbers! To cap off the year in GitHub, we have the Top 5 projects of the month of December. I wanted to do the Top 5 of 2014, but alas the GitHub trending feature doesn’t have a yearly time span option. #1: io.js, the month’s most popular project providing evented I/O for … continue reading
Today marks the start of Code.org’s second annual Computer Science Education Week, and with it another round of the Hour of Code campaign, this time with even higher goals. This year, President Obama kicked off the festivities with a speech, also taking on the title of “Coder-in-Chief” and becoming the first president to program a … continue reading
Sneak peek of Computer Research Association’s Taulbee survey shows gains in undergrad and Ph.D. computer science degrees … continue reading
GitHub Education is offering free Micro accounts for students and teachers, along with free accounts for classrooms … continue reading
A new academy is part of a growing movement to get computer science and programming education into high schools … continue reading
The new software engineering academy in New York is a promising start to turning around America’s decline in math education … continue reading
Play-i is crowdsourcing a pair of robots that use play to teach kids the basics of programming … continue reading
Computer education in America would be better served by focusing on programming languages … continue reading
Education about software development should better prepare students for work in the enterprise … continue reading
